Tees Business Issue 40 | Seite 7

Make the vow to talk cancer in the workplace
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WELCOME

Make the vow to talk cancer in the workplace

GUEST FOREWORD by Jo Davies , managing director , HR Alchemy
HIGHLIGHTS

20-23

BLAZING A TRAIL Cover feature : Danielle Croce on her pride at being crowned Tees Businesswoman of the Year

46-47

TEES TIME Event Cup Solutions director John Reeves on what makes him tick

142-155

TEES BUSINESSWOMEN AWARDS All the highlights from the seventh annual celebration of women in business

158-167

BEST NEW TEES BUSINESS AWARDS Looking back on the highlights of an event celebrating the modern-day infant Hercules contenders

Talk Cancer Teesside is a major new workplace campaign I ’ ve launched in partnership with Teesside Hospice to help Tees organisations build supportive workplaces that are “ cancer-friendly ”. If you ’ re wondering why , the sobering fact is that cancer will affect 50 % of us . Apply this to your workforce , and that ’ s 50 % of your employees .

Too often cancer is a taboo conversation in the workplace for employees and employers . But imagine your organisation being a workplace where your employees dealing with cancer directly or indirectly are supported , staff are trained and the organisation performs a purposeful role .
That ’ s the vision for Talk Cancer Teesside . I ’ m calling on businesses across the Tees region to make the vow to talk cancer in the workplace by signing up for this crucial campaign . As a proud trustee of Teesside Hospice , I ’ m delighted the charity will benefit from every company that signs up to Talk Cancer Teesside . I ’ m also grateful to Casper Group , OOK Agency , VIA Creative and Pankhurst Design for their support and goodwill in helping get the campaign rolling .
You can read more about the campaign and our launch event at a recent Tees Business LIVE on pages
TALKING UP YOUR BUSINESS
10 and 11 of this issue . Find out more and sign up to back the campaign via talkcancerteesside . org . uk .
While we ’ re grateful to Tees Business for its support with the campaign , it ’ s fantastic to see also the celebration of not one but two of their awesome annual awards – the Tees Businesswomen Awards and Best New Tees Business Awards – within these pages .
Teesside Hospice was the chosen charity at the Businesswomen Awards , which saw Intasite director Danielle Croce crowned the seventh Tees Businesswoman of the Year . Congratulations to Danielle , who has big shoes to fill as she follows in the footsteps of inspiring past winners Claire Preston , Sharon Lane , Jane Armitage , Chloe Clover , Kimberley Turner and Cathi Harrison .
In the cover feature , it ’ s lovely to read Danielle paying tribute to her grandmother , who gave her a muchneeded loan that helped get the Intasite inspiration off the ground .
There ’ s so much to read from a Who ’ s Who of local businesses in this 40th edition of Tees Business – all of it a reminder that , despite ongoing challenges , the Tees region continues to be a true business powerhouse we can all be proud to be part of .
Tees Business is published quarterly for circulation across Middlesbrough , Stockton , Redcar & Cleveland , Hartlepool and Darlington , as well as Wynyard , Stokesley and East Cleveland .
4,000 copies of Tees Business are distributed across the region ’ s business community , with views of our digital version taking average readership beyond 20,000 .
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